Vanissa C'est la Vie is a bar in Centro Storico, Parma.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Must order: Tell the bartender three flavours you like and take what comes.
Food program: Small accompaniments
Tip: The room is intimate and fills on weekend nights; Tuesday to Thursday you get the bartender's full attention.
Address: Strada Nuova 28/B, 43121 Parma
Barino works Piazza XXV Aprile in Parma from breakfast espresso to two-in-the-morning spritz, with pizza and a long wine shelf holding the middle.
Signature drink: Spritz rounds with pizza slices
Food: Pizza and light bites
Order: An evening spritz with a pizza to share on the square.
Tip: It faces the park strip near the station side of town, so it collects the pre-train coffee crowd and the post-dinner one alike.
BANG Club stacks Parma's late weekend into one address on Via Ugolotti: dinner and pizza early, cocktails after, DJ sets running to three in the morning.
Signature drink: Cocktails carried from dinner into the DJ set
Food: Pizza and dinner service before the club hours
Order: Dinner early, then hold a cocktail through the first DJ set.
Tip: Friday and Saturday are the club nights; midweek it is a lunch room, so check the programme before planning the evening.
Birreria Chelsea holds its long-running beer-and-panini corner on Via Emilio Lepido in Parma, a neighbourhood pub that opens when the city eats dinner.
Signature drink: Pints with panini rounds
Food: Panini and pub snacks
Order: A pint and a hot panino, the house pairing since forever.
Tip: It runs evenings only from 19:30; Sunday is a working night here when much of Parma's east side goes dark.
Arte e Gusto runs one of Parma's fuller aperitivo buffets on Via Emilia Est, a refined bar-restaurant hybrid priced around twelve euro a round.
Signature drink: Aperitivo with the buffet spread
Food: Buffet aperitivo and a full menu
Order: The aperitivo round with a full pass of the buffet.
Tip: Come hungry at 18:30; the buffet is generous enough that plenty of locals let it replace dinner outright.
Bastian Contrario Public House taps its own Parma-brewed beers on Strada Inzani: eleven lines plus two pumps, from Miss Matilda to the rotating one-offs.
Signature drink: House-brewed Miss Matilda on tap
Food: Pub kitchen from the brewery's own menu
Order: Miss Matilda first, then whatever rotates on the hand pumps.
Tip: The brewery's taproom and kitchen live at Via Rapallo, with a 1969 trailer as its roving festival bar; this pub is the nightly, no-booking way to the tanks.
Vecchie Maniere fills a Bernabei courtyard in Parma's Oltretorrente with craft taps and live-music nights, the neighbourhood pub the district deserves.
Signature drink: Rotating Italian craft taps
Food: Boards and toasted things for the beer
Order: Whatever Italian craft beer leads the chalkboard that night.
Tip: Check their pages for the live sets; on music nights the courtyard fills by 21:30 and the taps queue after each set.
